Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-03
TELEGRApHIU BREvIrIEs.

at Key West.
The sale of Rattlesnake Island is pro-
nounced canard.
George H Disque wife-murdegcr, was
hanged in New Jersey.
The new Postmaster of Oakland made
five changes in his staff.
Oakland liquor dealers will contest the
enforcement of high license,
Bert Mackenzie is under arrest at Los
Angeles for robbing the mails.
The non-pertisan anti-Chinese crusade
has been again started in Mendocino.
Wealthy citizens complained of for not
subscribing to the Grant monument fuad.
Eight of the most important prisoners
have escaped from the Los Angeles city
Jail.
| 1t is stated that a syndicate of Cincinnati
men are'at the bottom of the great wheat
| deal.
The Rpiseopalians contemplate the cree
| ton of a S10000,000 cathedral in New
| York.
John Reagan defeated John Files in a
, forty-four round fight near New York yes
teraey.
The rubber manufacturers have formed
a big combination with q capital of $685.
100000.
On Wednesday the heaviest rainfall in
1 five years occurred at Truckee, causing
washouts.
| During drunken row among some In
dams near Cloverdale, SoDoma county, one
was beaten to death.
The ninetieth anniversary of the found
| ing of the mission of San Jose will be cele-
brated next Sunday.
a dispatch from Calcutta announces the
loss of steamer with $50 persons on board
during the recent cyclone.
Samuel s. Shull, a'wealthy stock rancher,
was murdered few days ago in his cabin
in the Mogoll3n mountains.
The decrease of the national debt in May
was IS, SSS, 1897 Co. total reduction since
June 80, 1886. 800. 854, 921 81.
Augustus and Townsend johnson were
indicted for arson for setting fire to Palm
er's coopersge in Brooklyn.
John Lord Love is appointed in Oakland
assignee of the estate of A. w. Bowman,
vice William Thomas, resigned.
| Elk Secretary Manning, wife and daugh-
| ter, sailed from London in the Baltic yes
terday, much improved in health.
| In the races for the Breeders Foal stakes,
| at Manchester, Springhaven and Safety
ran dead heat and divided the prize.
| Scott Weatherby, caught stealing horses
near Las Cruces, made desperate resist
arce, wounding Bird Higgins in the breast.
A marriage has been arranged between
Duke Albrecht, of Wurtemburg, and the
daughter of the Crown Prince Frederick
William.
| Buck Taylor, chief cowboy in the Wild
West show in London, had his leg broken
on Wednesday and will be laid UP for sew
eral months.
There seems to be an objection among
some of the Grand Army men to enter
tanning President Cleveland at the st. Louis
Encampment.
In Western Texas, along the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio, heavy rains
have caused great damage, and travel will
| be interrupted.
Kathleen Boothe is in the nominal Gus
| tody of the Sheriff of Alameda county,
pending the determination of habeas cor
pus proceedings.
The last spike connecting the east and
west divisions of the Northern Pacific
Railroad was driven ON Wednesday at
| Coles Station, W. t.
Paris press comments indicate that
Rouvier hopes to effect a retrenchment of
| from sixty TO eighty million francs from
| the estimates of the Ministers of War, Ma
rine and Public Works
The Democratic leaders propose to hold
| caucus Immediately upon the meeting OF
| Congress for the purpose of coming to an
| agreement through which the revenues of
! the Government can be reduced.
General Manager Towne announces the
| intention of the Southern Pacific to erect
an immense depot in Les Angeles. A
| tract of land has been purchased from q
syndicate for this purpose, but the price is
not announced.
Pete Martinello, the well-known butcher
of Fort Huachuca and Tombstone, was
hanged by desperadoes in the mountains
| between Arizona and New Mexico. He
had been summoned to appear against
some well-known cattle thieves.
] A terrible plague of locusts has visited
| the central portions of Spain, The insects
are so thick that gangs of men have been
! sent to clear the rail- DAD lines. Crops are
fearfully ravaged. The Cortes is about to
vote credit for the relief of the sufferers.
Monday afternoon Antene Domingo, a
| Californian, was standing near a stallion
on the ranch of Jerry Morgan, near Clay
| ton, Contra Costa county, when the horse
suddenly turned and kicked him in the
stomach, infiicting injuries which resulted
i'll his death.